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We'll Take Manhattan
The first original movie We’ll Take Manhattan will air on the Ovation network on March 3 at 8 PM.
Set in the 1960s world of fashion photography, the film explores the relationship between ground-breaking British photographer David Bailey and his model and muse Jean Shrimpton, particularly during their legendary New York photo shoot for British Vogue in 1962. The film stars Aneurin Barnard (Spring Awakening) and Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) as Jean Shrimpton.
Here is the trailer for We’ll Take Manhattan as advertised for BBC Four (one of the major networks in the UK).
Posted in Recommendations, Television on February 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
6 PM:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie on BBC America
6:30 PM:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 movie on More Max
7:15 PM:
Just Wright movie on HBO Signature
7:30 PM:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie on FX
8 PM:
NCIS on CBS (NEW)
Switched at Birth on ABC Family (NEW)
Hart of Dixie on The CW (Reair)
Speed movie on CMT
9 PM:
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (NEW)
Jane By Design on ABC Family (NEW)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie on BBC America
Knight and Day movie on More Max
10 PM:
Body of Proof on ABC (NEW)
Unforgettable on CBS (NEW)
Justified on FX (NEW)
White Collar on USA Network (FINALE)
Switched at Birth on ABC Family (Encore)
Flashpoint on ION (Reair)
The King’s Speech movie on Showtime
Enjoy!
Posted in Breaking News, Contest/Sweepstakes, Geekdom, News, Television on February 27, 2012| 2 Comments »
TV Guide Magazine invites readers to vote in the “Second Annual Fan Favorites Awards“, which celebrate the best shows and stars in television. Readers can cast their vote on the TV Guide Magazine Facebook page, where they can also enter to win a trip to the TV Guide Magazine 2012 Hot List Party.
Voting is open now through March 16, 2012 on Facebook, and fans can vote as many times as they would like to support their favorite show. One new category will be posted per day, and fans can vote on the previous days’ nominees as well. The Fan Favorites winners will be revealed in the April 16 issue of TV Guide Magazine, available on newsstands April 12, 2012.
Selected by TV Guide Magazine editors, the 2012 Fan Favorites nominees are:
Favorite Drama: The Good Wife, Downton Abbey, Homeland, Game of Thrones, NCIS, Mad Men, Justified, Breaking Bad, Fringe, The Killing
Favorite Comedy: Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, The Big Bang Theory, Community, The Middle, Two and a Half Men, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, The Simpsons, New Girl
Favorite Actor: Ty Burrell (Modern Family), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family), Mark Harmon (NCIS), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Damian Lewis (Homeland)
Favorite Actress: Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Claire Danes (Homeland), Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly), Julie Bowen (Modern Family), Zooey Deschanel (New Girl), Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)
Favorite Guilty Pleasure: Pretty Little Liars, Revenge, Ringer, The Bachelor, Storage Wars
Favorite Comeback: Debra Messing (Smash), Tim Allen (Last Man Standing), Kiefer Sutherland (Touch), Ashton Kutcher (Two and a Half Men), Simon Cowell (The X Factor)
Favorite TV Chef/Foodie: Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations, The Layover), Gordon Ramsay (Kitchen Nightmares), Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef), Tom Colicchio (Top Chef), Rachael Ray (Rachael)
Favorite New Show: New Girl, Person of Interest, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Two Broke Girls, Smash, Suburgatory, Touch, Alcatraz, Homeland
Favorite Singing Contest: American Idol, The Voice, The X Factor, The Sing Off, Nashville Star
Favorite Horror Show: American Horror Story, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Supernatural, The Walking Dead
Favorite Couple: Cam and Mitchell (Modern Family), Bones and Booth (Bones), Castle and Beckett (Castle), Daniel and Emily (Revenge), Rachel and Finn (Glee)
Favorite Villain: Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time), Victoria Grayson (Revenge), Klaus (The Vampire Diaries), Nicholas Brody (Homeland), Constance (American Horror Story)
Favorite Train Wreck: The Real Housewives franchise, Jersey Shore, Toddlers & Tiaras, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Celebrity Rehab
Favorite Ensemble: Modern Family, Community, Downton Abbey, The Good Wife, Happy Endings
After casting a vote at the Facebook page (make sure to “Like” the page so you can vote), fans can submit their email address to enter a sweepstakes to win a trip to the TV Guide Magazine 2012 Hot List party in Los Angeles.
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on February 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
First of all, let’s congratulate all of the Oscar winners, which were presented last night, including The Artist, Jean Dujardin, Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer, Christopher Plummer, Woody Allen, Michel Hazanavicius, Rango, Hugo, The Descendants, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Muppets and The Iron Lady.
And, now here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) is headed to Doctor Who to play the latest incarnation of The Master. (Express.Co.UK and Film Thrasher)
Actor David Morrissey will join the AMC zombie drama The Walking Dead, playing The Governor, the main villain of season three. (The Live Feed and Dark Horizons)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Veteran character actor Martin Landau has been cast in the ABC drama pilot called Antichrist that will be about Carter Henderson (Max Thieriot), an astrophysics grad student who, after his father is killed, learns that he is the chosen one to destroy the forces of evil. Landau will play Mister Armin, a blind World War II veteran and the executor of Carter’s father’s estate. (The Futon Critic)
Scottish actor/singer Darius Campbell has booked one of the title roles on the ABC drama pilot Beauty and the Beast that will be set in the mythical city of Kendan where its princess, Grace, is tasked with quelling a rebellion. Campbell will play the beast, Shiro, once the Holy Protector to the Emperor, now a mercenary for the rebels. Chris Egan also stars. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
British actress Janet Montgomery (Human Target) has landed the lead in the CBS legal drama pilot called Baby Big Shot that will center on Martina (Montgomery), a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a top New York law firm. (Deadline)
Actor Ethan Peck (grandson of legendary actor Gregory Peck), who starred in the short-lived TV adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family has been tapped to play the prince in the futuristic drama pilot for The CW called The Selection. He will star opposite Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights) in a story that draws parallels to The Hunger Games. This pilot will be based on the upcoming series of books by Kiera Cass and is set 300 years in the future. It centers on America Singer (Teegarden), a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to marry Prince Maxon (Peck) and become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads. Maxon has an unusual run-in with potential bride America and is impressed and intrigued with her honesty and moxie. (Deadline)
Actor Julian Morris (Pretty Little Liars) has been cast in the FOX legal drama pilot called Guilty that will center on Billy Remz, a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been banned from handling and to exact revenge on the men who set him up. Morris will play an eager young attorney, dazzled and intimidated by Billy’s self-confidence and breezy ability when it comes to breaking the rules. (Deadline)
Actor Rick Gonzalez (Reaper) and Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey) have joined the NBC drama pilot called Bad Girls that is to follow the ins and outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates — some mothers, some friends — who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and outside. Gonzalez will play a hot, tattooed ex gang-banger who is now a correctional officer at the women’s prison and the object of lust among the man-less female inmates. Boyle will play a single mother who takes a job as nurse at the prison. (Deadline)
Actor Chaske Spencer (Sam in the Twilight movie franchise) has joined the cast of the NBC western drama called The Frontier that will revolve around a group who follows their dreams and heads West from Missouri across the unchartered country in the 1840s. Spencer will play Eli, a cook who’s traveling with his mentally unstable aunt, Luisa. The cast already includes Ethan Embry (Sweet Home Alabama), Megan Ferguson (Boardwalk Empire), Jake McLaughlin (Savages), Bridget Regan (Legend of the Seeker) [among others]. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) has been tapped to star in the NBC drama pilot Revolution that is to center on a group of characters struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist. Esposito will play Capt. Neville, a tough military man with a genteel Southern manner who may not always be what he seems. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations:
1. Act of Valor, $24.7 million
2. Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, $16 million
3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, $13.5 million
4. Safe House, $11.4 million
5. The Vow, $10 million
6. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, $8.8 million
7. This Means War, $8.5 million
8. Wanderlust, $6.6 million
9. Gone, $5 million
10. The Secret of Arrietty, $4.5 million
Actress Frances Fisher (Titanic and The Lincoln Lawyer) has joined the cast of the film adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer book The Host. The store follows a few human survivors of a parasitic alien species called the Souls which have plagued Earth. The cast already includes Diane Kruger, Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel and William Hurt. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in News, Recommendations, Reviews, Television on February 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
King Season 1
The Canadian police drama King will return for its second season with its premiere episode slated to air on the Showcase channel this Wednesday, February 29 at 9 PM.
King is a clever series focusing on Jessica King (actress Amy Price-Francis), a charismatic but unconventional lead investigator for Toronto’s Major Crimes Task Force. Imagine King as a cross between Kate Beckett on Castle and Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer. She is a tough talking cop with a penchant for designer stilettos. She and her team take on cases that seem impossible to solve; but once King is on the scene, there is no doubt that the truth will be found and those who committed the crime better watch out.
King Season 2
King, obviously, isn’t a solo act as she is joined by Detective Sergeant Derek Spears (actor Alan Van Sprang), who in the first season had a televised meltdown that cost him the leadership role of the Task Force, making it necessary for the Chief to install King as the new leader. The new members of the Task Force include Pen Martin (actor Rossif Sutherland), who is a hot shot from the Spin Unit (basically the Canadian version of Surveillance) and Ingrid Evans (actress Karen Robinson), who is one of Organized Crime’s most experienced players.
King’s personal life is even centered on the police force, as her (third) husband Danny Sless (actor Gabriel Hogan) is a police officer (with a gambling problem that got him into some serious trouble in the first season and caused a temporary rift between him and his wife). Oh, and did I mention that they have been trying to have a baby; so much so that they even tried in-vitro with no success. But now, she is pregnant and the question is if the baby’s father is Danny or her right-hand man Det. Sgt. Spears who she had a brief affair with while she and her husband were hitting a ‘rough patch’ in their marriage. I did say she was unconventional, right?
King Season 2 Cast
To make matters worse (as if that is even possible), Danny has a new (sexy and young) partner, Officer Alessandra Taylor (actress Romina D’Ugo), which could spell trouble for the couple in addition to his compulsive gambling which he is trying to keep under control.
The story-telling in this series is straight-forward, sometimes fast-paced but brutally honest. It has a style all its own, but its segway pieces between scenes are somewhat reminiscent of 24. It is definitely worth a look.
Make sure to check out the season premiere of King on Showcase this Wednesday, February 29 at 9 PM.
Posted in Movies, News on February 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in March:
Being Flynn
Opens: March 2
The story follows a young writer (Paul Dano) who goes to work at a Boston homeless shelter only to encounter his long-absent father: a con man and self-proclaimed poet (Robert De Niro). Julianne Moore and Olivia Thirlby star.
Bernie
Opens: March 2
The film is based on a true story of a local mortician who strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow and then kills her – going to great lengths to maintain the illusion that she’s alive. The film stars Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine and Rip Torn.
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Opens: March 2
This animated film deals with Ted (Zac Efron), an idealistic young boy who lives in a completely artificial town and sets out to find a real tree. Along the way he learns the story of the Lorax (Danny DeVito), a grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Other voices are be provided by Taylor Swift, Ed Helms and Betty White.
Safe
Opens: March 2
This is a straight forward action thriller starring Jason Statham as a soldier of fortune who finds himself on the run across the U.S. eastern seaboard with a young Chinese girl carrying vital secrets that both the Chinese and Russian Mafia are intent on obtaining in order to blackmail world governments. The cast also includes Chris Sarandon.
John Carter
Opens: March 9
This film follows an American Civil War veteran who is miraculously transported to Mars where he learns the planet is dying from the loss of its atmosphere and water. Only a peaceful alliance of its intelligent inhabitants can save the inhabitants from extinction. The cast includes Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Thomas Haden Church, Samantha Morton and Ciarán Hinds.
The Raven
Opens: March 9
The story is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life in which the macabre author teams with a detective in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories. John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Pam Ferris star.
21 Jump Street
Opens: March 16
This is an action comedy spoof-remake of the 80’s TV series that has only one similarity with the show; it’s about cops who go undercover in high school. The cast includes Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson and Dave Franco.
Butter
Opens: March 16
The film follows an adopted teen who discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman (Jennifer Garner) in their small Iowan town’s annual contest. The cast includes Ashley Greene, Olivia Wilde, Rob Corddry and Hugh Jackman.
Seeking Justice
Opens: March 16
The story follows a bookish school teacher (Nicolas Cage) whose wife (January Jones) is the victim of a brutal rape while the pair are celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The bereaved husband subsequently becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization in an effort to get revenge and soon finds himself in too far over his head. Guy Pearce and Harold Perrineau also star.
The Hunger Games
Opens: March 23
Based on the popular Suzanne Collins novel, the film focuses on what remains of North America that has now been split into twelve districts where every year a teenage boy & girl are chosen from each district to risk their lives in a ruthless competition for survival – 24 go in, but only one can come out. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz star.
Goon
Opens: March 30
The story follows a bouncer who is an outcast in his brainy family and soon finds himself a new gig as an ice hockey enforcer, a player whose role it is to protect his teammates and act as a deterrent by hitting or fighting opposing players who take liberties with them. The cast includes Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Liev Schreiber and Eugene Levy.
Learning to Fly
Opens: March 30
This film is based on a true story tale that follows two strong mothers – one lower class, one upper class – who channel their frustration into action and join forces to transform an inner-city school to make a difference in the education and the lives of their children. Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ving Rhames, Holly Hunter and Oscar Isaac star.
Mirror Mirror
Opens: March 30
Julia Roberts plays an enchantress who schemes her way to the throne; but when a spirited young orphan (Lily Collins) wins the attention of a charming prince (Armie Hammer), the Queen banishes her to the forest. With the help of several highway robber dwarves, she sets out to take back her realm. The cast includes Nathan Lane and Sean Bean.
The Deep Blue Sea
Opens: March 30
The film is based on the infamous 1952 play about a judge’s middle-aged trophy wife who reaches her sexual awakening while engaging in an affair with a traumatized alcoholic young war pilot. The film stars Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Opens: March 30
This 3D tale follows the vain, self-deluded and mostly incompetent Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and his crew as they attempt to win the coveted Pirate of the Year award. Other voices featured in this Claymation film include Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman and Brendan Gleeson.
Wrath of the Titans
Opens: March 30
This sequel stars Sam Worthingon as Perseus, who – along with a few others – set out on a quest to rescue Zeus from the Underworld where Hades and Ares are holding him after making a deal with their Titan father Kronos. The cast includes Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Edgar Ramirez and Rosamund Pike.
Movies coming out in April will be posted at the end of March.
Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Television on February 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable
series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
8 PM:
Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family (NEW)
Being Human on Syfy (Reair)
Homeland on Showtime (Reair)
NCIS on USA Network
Flightplan movie on Fox Movie Channel
Eagle Eye movie on FX
9 PM:
Hart of Dixie on The CW (NEW)
Alcatraz on FOX (NEW)
The Lying Game on ABC Family (NEW)
Being Human on Syfy (NEW)
Something Borrowed movie on HBO
10 PM:
Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family (Encore)
Lost Girl on Syfy (NEW)
Smash on NBC (NEW)
The Closer on TNT (Reair)
10:01 PM:
Castle on ABC (NEW)
Enjoy!
Posted in News, Recommendations, Reminder, Television on February 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Awake
The new NBC drama Awake will debut on March 1 at 10 PM.
The series stars Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter and Brotherhood) as a detective who finds he is leading a complex double life that defies reality. He is involved in a car accident that seems to have killed both his son (Dylan Minnette) and wife (Laura Allen), yet his mind creates an ingenious coping mechanism in which he now lives two separate lives – one where his wife survived and the other where his son did.
Other cast members include Wilmer Valderamma, Cherry Jones, B. D. Wong and Steve Harris.
Here is a trailer for Awake.
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